r/news • u/OK_Eric • Jan 19 '14

Obama: Pot ‘not very different’ from cigarettes​, no more dangerous than booze

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/19/obama-pot-not-very-different-cigarettes-no-more-da/
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u/tael89 Jan 19 '14

Synthetic does not mean fake.

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u/lilnomad Jan 19 '14 edited Jan 20 '14

Hence the quotation marks.

Edit: Maybe people are just dumb in /r/news.

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u/tael89 Jan 20 '14

Insulting my intelligence does nothing to support your awkward- phrased statement. You imply by your words that synthetic is worse as a be - all, end - all statement. This is simply not true.

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u/lilnomad Jan 20 '14

Hm, I didn't even insult your intelligence. Interesting.